it s been the home of spokane, washington s elite, in their queen anne and craftsman s homes and not the sort of story we re about to tell. ambitious men, dark plots and dames. i asked him. am i just the dumb blonde who missed it? or did everyone miss it? the one so many people missed, before that dreadful vent here in the wooded enclave. he thought that god was blessing hem and my mom. we thought we were walking on water. here they were, empty nesters, all alone in their house on the south hill, convinced that their successes, their six grown kids, their good life were products of an unflinching trust in god. you know, we finally got out of the desert. and he was going to get into the
landscapes of american privilege is the rise of historic land called the south hill. it s been the home of spokane, washington s elite, in their queen anne and craftsman s homes and not the sort of story we re about to tell. ambitious men, dark plots and dames. i asked him. am i just the dumb blonde who missed it? or did everyone miss it? the one so many people missed, before that dreadful vent here in the wooded enclave. he thought that god was blessing hem and my mom. we thought we were walking on water. here they were, empty nesters, all alone in their house on the south hill, convinced that their successes, their six grown kids, their good life were products of an unflinching trust in god. you know, we finally got out
handsome salary. in 2008, how old for your kids in 2008? my youngest, you know, she was 7 years old. now she is taller than her mom, and going getting ready for college. going to a junior in high school, and two of our three kids are married and moving off. we re faced with the reality of being empty nesters, and i don t want to spend the rest of this congress two plus hundred nights away while my wife is by herself in utah. that s we have been married 26 years. that s not what i signed up for, and then you add to it, a dose of reality that the things you have been fighting for and hoping pass and bring to the floor, even when you get something as bipartisan as my immigration bill, which has 230 co-sponsors, it has no chance of going to the floor, and you say, you know what? i got the get off this crazy
it. okay. according to that study, about 65% of parents expect topport their children for up to five years. so if you graduate at 22 you re in your late 20s before you have to pay rent by yourself? you know what is a good idea allow them to move back charge them a rent and then give it back to them if you want to. at the end? yes. like an escrow account. one of the things that i mentioned in my book move to south dakota. if you want to be a teacher, they are paying well. if you want to be a teacher, you can have a dream. it s like the wild west. you should move in with other people s parents. great idea. thank you, greg. do child share. empty nesters. how is that going? you miss them.
mostly blood from the yale community that grew out from there. speaking of weeds, i mean yeah. go ahead. but my question really is, hinted at it a moment ago, put aside detroit in this conversation, but how often are we seeing people who when their kids grow up, leave home, are done with college, they start to rethink going back to the cities? a lot actually. the city story, detroit being kind of an exception, is cities are sort of wildly resurgent as a lot of us have read about. look at what happened in new york city and d.c. is a better example. but a lot of empty nesters are coming back. a lot of young families, people who would previously have completely decamped to the suburbs, more of those people with young children stay in the cities and, in fact, i have a couple people in the book who actually did beat the path to the suburbs with their young kids and pulled everybody up and uprooted and took them out of schools and moved back to the city. that s just one or two fa